Jerry has spent the last twenty-five years recruiting partners, department chairman and group practices for the largest law firms in America.

During these years, he has counseled with and/or merged more than twenty five group practices, affected five major firm M&A transactions, interviewed more than 100,000 lawyers and placed more than one thousand. Sears is a Certified Personnel Counselor and a Certified Employment Specialist. He's assisted many clients with rainmaking counseling, firm-wide compensation programs and resolving internal partner disputes. He's also worked with Managing Partners and Executive Committees to develop long-term strategic plans.

His articles have been published in The Practical Lawyer and The Harvard Business Review. One of his prior books, Career Miracles, formed the basis of national workshops that focused on the participant's inner strength and their ability to find and use it in the workplace.

Sears graduated from Queens College in New York and became a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. Later while working at Chemical Bank, he received his MBA in Finance from New York University. Twenty-five years ago he became an Executive Recruiter after spending twenty years in banking.

Today much of his time is spent working with professionals on improving their rainmaking skills, a practice area that gives him a great deal of personal satisfaction. According to Sears, the best statement of his own outlook on life, and his teachings, is summed up in a quote from the famous philosopher, Saint Bernard, circa 1100BC, who said, "Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am I a real sufferer but by my own fault."